Nice Things
Nice People Have Said
About our CD:
"...Intricate rhythms and bratty
female
caterwauls, a head for complexity and rumbling over melody‹CG&J is
exuberantly playful. ...It won't appeal to everyone, but good things
seldom do. ...If you prefer the crowded chaos and visual violence of a
Pollack print to the serene harmony of a Monet, might I recommend the
manic canvas of Cantwell Gomez & Jordan."
--Brian Howe, The Crutch
"This is more than organized
noise. The
jarring, often discordant rhythms of CG&J land somewhere between
the power of their dizzying live show and the cerebral stylings of the
NASA channel.... A must-have."
--Lauren Hooker, The Independent (Durham, NC)
"The sounds contained within
CG&J's
self-titled debut album very smartly start and stop while constantly
managing to remain fresh. ...Surely the indicator of greater works that
are still to come."
--Cory Rayborn, FakeJazz.com
"These American of CHAPEL HILL
competes of
ideas and noisy musical lucky finds and a freshness dissonate that
little manages to set up! No wave, post punk muscular, the emmaillote
whole of a parsimonious sax, the qualifiers will not be able to really
compete with this music, a technique of perfect guitar to the service
of strange and dissonant, a side really intriguing, a thingummy noise
which one has the impression to know since always and which with final
feels a familiar odor with this after shaving if pimpant! Good
discovery for a very successful disc frankly!"
--Erwan, STNT.org (French-to-English translation courtesy of
Google)
"WXYC [Chapel Hill, NC] has been
spinningŠCantwell Gomez & Jordan so much lately that we had to get
a copy for ourselves and check it out. It was easy to see why the
station likes the CD so much."
--Brad Maybe, CMJ
About our shows:
"CG&J are the total
state-of-the art in messed-up, no-wave fast/precise/skronk postpunk."
--Ross Grady, TriangleRock.com
"Holy crap are they good. They
were pretty
happy to bash skulls in or drone in slow motion jazz stylings.
Definitely someone I'll watch again."
--M., Pataphysics-Lab.com
"Big on shifting gears,
controlling volume to
the low and high extremes and shifting tempos in dramatic and exciting
ways, CG&J bring a free jazz sensibility to their rock, splattering
gobs of shattered notes against the walls like some abstract
expressionist painters."
--Chris Toenes, Triangle.com